JANUARY 2019 / NO. 2
TAGS: STRATEGIC CHOICES, DATA, MASTER CLASS

Have you asked yourself these 5 Critical Questions?

Competitors to be feared are those who never bother about your company at all, but go on making their own business better all the time

These competitors are able to do this, because they have their state-of-art strategic intelligence structured, organized, and reported straightforward to the guys at the Top

— Joseph H.A.M. Rodenberg
It’s obvious that strategic competitive intelligence contributes to the success of companies. Management has to cross the border from data-information-knowledge towards intelligence. However, management currently is stuck in data and information. They have “to walk another mile” to get to strategic intelligence. Below are five critical questions to rely on, when making strategic choices:
  1. How does your company need to perform to achieve superior returns?
  2. Always examine adjacent markets: attractive segments for growth, but above all, breeding grounds for potential future competitors.
  3. Are we better off consolidating the core business where growth is slower, or can we enter new high-growth/high-profit markets and win?
  4. Are our analyses and insights based more on “firsthand strategic intelligence” rather than on industry databases and reports?
  5. Is it maintaining the status-quo or do you ask yourself if you have the people, processes, technologies, and other critical components required, to make big moves?
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Strategy is what the organization wants to do in the outside world, intelligence is what the outside world wants to do with your company

— Joseph H.A.M. Rodenberg

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